My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.
("The Tenant of Wildfell Hall")
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I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself?Anne Bronte
I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.
Anne Bronte
But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.
Anne Bronte
My life is very lonely,
My days pass heavily,
I'm wearing of repining,
Wilt thou not come to me?
Anne Bronte
Then cold and dark my spirit sinks,
To see my light of life depart,
And every fiend of Hell methinks
Enjoys the anguish of my heart.
Anne Bronte
Have we not longed through life the reign to see
Of Justice, linked with Glorious Liberty?
Anne Bronte
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